Al Majalla launches a special series of articles and conversations reflecting on the events of 2025 and the broader legacy of the past 25 years in the Arab world and across the globe. We present sharp analyses of the sweeping transformations that have reshaped the Arab region and the wider world in this period.
The year 2025 witnessed the machinations of a changing global order and the restructuring of regional dynamics—not least in the Middle East. Al Majalla unpacks these shifts while also opining on possible future trajectories, commissioning leading thinkers and researchers to share their perspectives beyond the headlines.
 

Deterring Cyberattacks

[caption id="attachment_55254972" align="aligncenter" width="4957"] A picture taken on October 17, 2016 shows an employee walking behind a glass wall with machine coding symbols at the headquarters…

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ISIS' Intelligence Service Refuses to Die

[caption id="attachment_55254930" align="aligncenter" width="3260"] A member of Iraqi intelligence (R) guards 31 suspected ISIS group members at the Intelligence headquarters in Baghdad on March 16,…

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The Hidden Refugee Health Crisis

[caption id="attachment_55254926" align="aligncenter" width="5000"] Lebanese medical student examines displaced refugee woman. Getty)[/caption] On a cold January night near Istanbul’s Taksim Square,…

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A Pan-Eurasian Dream in Progress

[caption id="attachment_55254924" align="aligncenter" width="3213"] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev (R) attend the opening ceremony of the first…

Yasmine Ahmed

Is the Future Human?

by Bryn Haworth* In his book Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari is concerned with a human future that is no longer strictly human at all. It is a future that finally belongs to the geeks and to their…

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Hariri’s Resignation Exposed Hezbollah

[caption id="attachment_55254910" align="aligncenter" width="3000"] Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri makes a public appearance at his home "Beit al-Wasat" November 22, 2017 in Beirut, Lebanon…

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China's Booming Sharing Economy

[caption id="attachment_55254899" align="aligncenter" width="5000"] A parking lot for Car2Share, which is a station-based car sharing system offered by Mercedes. (Getty)[/caption] by James Yan …

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After ISIS, What's Next for Marawi?

[caption id="attachment_55254894" align="aligncenter" width="4000"] Blindfolded suspected self-styled ISIS group members are transported in a police vehicle after being captured in a village in…

Yasmine Ahmed